Sony Xperia C3 and Xperia C3 Dual battery life

Sony Xperia C3 Dual stopped by our office recently and we did a thorough inspection as usual. The 5.5″ phablet runs on the dated Snapdragon 400, but offers some great features as selfie-centric front snapper with a LED flash, a rear 8MP camera, plus dual-SIM or LTE connectivity.

We’ve reviewed quite a few mid-range Xperia smartphones and most of them did great on our battery life test, so we had some high hopes for the Xperia C3 and its 2,500 mAh battery unit.

Sony Xperia C3 is available in two different flavors – in single-SIM LTE model and another one with two SIM cards and 3G connectivity. Since we only have the dual-SIM model, we did our tests both with one and two SIM cards inside. Much to our our surprise, all test came out the same, regardless of the number of active SIM cards inside.

Our first test gauges the 3G talk time endurance. As it turned out, the Sony Xperia C3 Dual doesn’t offer the advertized dual-call feature, so it’s only natural that regardless whether you are using one or two SIM cards, the final battery life is the same. Sony Xperia C3 did excellent here, scoring a little over 22 hours.

Talk time

Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 LTE46:44h

HTC One Max22:13h

Sony Xperia Z222:13h

Samsung Galaxy Core LTE22:13h

Nokia Lumia 102022:13h

Nokia Lumia 132022:13h

Sony Xperia C3 Dual22:11h

Samsung ATIV SE22:05h

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge21:39h

Samsung Galaxy S521:20h

Motorola RAZR MAXX21:18h

LG Optimus G Pro E98520:45h

Pantech Burst4:46h

We measure the web browsing endurance with a dedicated script that emulates normal browser usage. The Sony Xperia C3 once again did great, packing enough juice to come just shy of 12 hours.

Next up, we left the Xperia C3 on a looped video playback and it once again the smartphone posted a great score – over 12 hours before its battery dropped down to 10%.

Video time

LG G Flex19:57h

Samsung Galaxy S5 Active12:51h

Samsung Galaxy Premier I926012:51h

Nokia Lumia 152012:31h

Samsung I9505 Galaxy S412:30h

BlackBerry Q512:28h

Sony Xperia C3 Dual12:22h

Huawei Ascend Mate12:18h

Sony Xperia Z212:16h

Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 LTE12:10h

Sony Xperia Z311:47h

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo11:38h

Nokia Lumia 7103:27h

Just like most of the Xperia phones we’ve tested through the past year, the Xperia C3, whether using one or two SIM cards, posted a solid stand-by endurance. All those great scores lead to the amazing endurance of 91 hours, which means you can count on it lasting almost 4 days if you do an hour each of talking, web browsing and playing videos per day.

Make note that our proprietary score also includes a standby battery draw test, which is not featured in our test scorecard but is calculated in the total endurance rating. Our battery testing procedure is described in detail in case you want to learn more about it.